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fiat money even really is: It is a fungible pan-bank liability.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
In the United States in 1907, a book entitled Three Acres and Liberty seized the imagination of the reading public. The author, Bolton Hall, began by taking for granted the awkwardness of having to work for someone else, and so told readers that they could regain their freedom by leaving their offices and factories and buying three acres of
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Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Capitalism
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I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
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Tenants who fell behind either had to accept unpleasant, degrading, and sometimes dangerous housing conditions or be evicted. But from a business point of view, this arrangement could be lucrative. The four-family property that included Doreen’s and Lamar’s apartments was Sherrena’s most profitable. Her second-most profitable property was Arleen’s
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Pay for work.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
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